I could not get enough of this audiobook! I wanted to speed it up because I was obsessed with the storyline but I wanted to slow it down to savor it. Ariel finds herself in a sticky situation where she realizes that she may not know as much as she thinks she does about her husband and their life together, but it will not stop her from trying to figure it out. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy of this book for an honest review.

I have tried twice to get into this one; first when I initially received an arc audiobook and then again over a year later. I love thrillers and suspense stories but for some reason just have not been able to get into this one. I’ll give it another chance at some point but for now I have several others that have more of my interest and attention.

I loved the beginning of this book. It was exciting and gave me Taken vibes for a second. But then it just kept going and going. By the end I felt exhausted. The only thing that kept me going was that genuinely shocking things would happen and I would want to know more. The audiobook definitely made it so I finished this one, if I had been reading it I probably would have gotten tired and stopped before the end.

When Ariel wakes up in Lisbon her husband is missing and she knows something is very wrong. But when she goes to the US Embassy and the local police, they are suspicious of her for not knowing much about him or what his business is in Lisbon. Then she gets a ransom demand and a warning not to tell anyone so Ariel is on her own. This is a fast-paced thriller that kept me guessing until the last page.

Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, and her husband is gone. John is missing and Ariel immediately tries to piece together where he could be and why is he gone? She reached out to the Hotel, the embassy and gets no where. Just dead ends at every turn. Ariel can’t understand how she know so little about her husband. This story has twists and turns. How does Ariel get things figured out? Can she get the right answers and find her way home? Who can she trust? This was a fast paced listen. January LaVoy is an excellent narrator. I want to thank Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for my copy for an honest review. It was my pleasure to listen and review Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone.

I enjoyed the narration of this book, and it began well. However, sometimes during times of high anxiety I cannot deal with the additional stresses of a main character who has things going so terribly wrong at every turn! I did not finish, but put it back on my TBR to try at a different time when in a different frame of mind! For readers who do not experience high anxiety, this should be a great read!

I’ve enjoyed all of Chris Pavone’s novels, but this one (in addition to being the usual edge-of-your-seat wild ride) had a little something extra.

Generally I’m not a fan of novels that center around a rape/sexual assault plot line. This is especially true if the book is written by a man. But while this is a very tough read in some ways, the subject was handled so well (probably the best I’ve seen by a male writer), and it has a very satisfying revenge arc.

I do wish (and here’s a huge trigger warning)that Pavone hadn’t chosen to use on-page, graphically described rape. It’s very difficult to read, likely quite triggering for a lot of women, and the story would not suffer at all from this event taking place off page.

That, however, is my one complaint, and I’m in awe of how well Pavone did with the subject matter in general. Since I complain a lot about the way male writers write female characters and especially the way they write from the perspective of female characters, I ought to give credit when a male author goes the other direction and actually writes from the perspective of a woman like a person who, y’know, actually knows and listens to women. That, to me, is what makes this one stand out from Pavone’s other novels, all of which are smart, fun thrillers like this one as well.

If you like revenge plots (and for anything with a rape-driven central story I basically insist on it), this is a sharp, satisfying one. You can guess a lot of what’s happening if you’re paying close attention relatively early in the book, but there’s plenty of elements to keep you guessing right up to the epilogue, and a few correct guesses on my part about where the story might be going didn’t hamper my enjoyment of it at all.

This is terrific in audiobook format, with a great narrator and pacing, and the story lends itself well to audio also.

DNF. Another thriller with a great premise that was wayyyy too long! Without the self-inserted pontification from the author, this would have been shorter and I would have liked it more. A thriller with a message is always fun, but there were less on-the-nose ways too pull this off, IMO. It was clumsy, and the narrator strikes me as a ham-handed character forced to be unlikeable to make the author's storytelling job easier. Easier does not mean better. Think I will skip his future releases.

I had both the physical and audiobook formats of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON, and ended up sticking to the audio version, narrated by January LaVoy, which is one of my favorite narrators. She did a fantastic job at really capturing the tone and narrative of the characters.

This story follows a woman named Ariel who accompanies her husband on a business trip, only to discover him missing when she wakes up one morning.

*many thanks to Macmillan Audio and netgalley for the gifted copy for review

I liked reading this book.. Tho it seems like I have read one with a similar plot not too long ago. It was slow reading the first several chapters, and seemed easy to anticipate

Two days to find your husband but only six months to make him yours. This is almost too fast-paced and I got a bit tired of it. The ending, however. Worth reading every word.

I started this book on audiobook however I found it confusing and it wasn’t keeping my interest. I switched over to the ebook and almost immediately I was all caught up, interested and engrossed. I felt the intensity, the sense of urgency and I flew through the pages, loving every minute of this story!

Usually, vacations are for resting and relaxing and enjoying a change of scenery. But in the audio edition of Two Nights in Lisbon by author Chris Pavone, a relaxing vacation quickly turns terrifying for an American in Portugal when she suddenly finds herself alone and in trouble...

Full review published on NightsAndWeekends.com - and aired on Shelf Discovery

1.5 rounded up.

I will keep this one short and sweet since this book was not for me.

Like other thrillers, readers will notice potholes and question how characters knew information or how something was missed, etc., but this story had so many holes you could mistake it for cheese. I ended up needing to finish the book to see if my guess was correct, otherwise I would’ve put it down less than half way through.

There’s not a character in this book worth liking as they’re all whiny and never seem to make an informed decision. It’s very much like watching a scary movie and wanting to yell at the TV screen because the characters run into the dark house where the killer is hiding.

Big sigh, bigger eye rolls.

I could write a lot more, but they’d be straight up spoilers.

Big thank you to Grand Central Publishing for the ARC.

Content warnings: rape, kidnapping, drugs, gaslighting, and more but they would be spoilers

Great read and I enjoyed the narrator. Kept my interest throughout the entire story. Would definitely recommend.

The beginning was definitely a little confusing / slow. But this book blew my mind!!! It was so good!! So many good twists to keep you intrigued! I never ever would have expected the end, it really got me! Incredible writing, and an incredible plot. I truly don’t understand how authors make thrillers this good!

Two Nights in Lisbon is my first book by Chris Pavone and hopefully not my last! This story kick-off well and had me intrigued from the get-go with an immediate hook - where is Ariel’s husband?! I enjoyed how the story unfolded with plenty of twists and turns that kept me guessing. Well-developed plot! I was pleasantly surprised to see it take a turn towards a political thriller halfway through but do wish this premise would have been introduced a bit earlier. My only real critiques are that I thought the book was too long for the story and that the city of Lisbon was not more visible in the story. I actually requested this book because we were traveling to Lisbon. Lisbon is a beautiful city with such unique culture and architecture and I wish the author would have captured it a bit more of it’s essence especially considering it was in the title.. but unfortunately Lisbon could about have been replaced with any European city name.

January Lavoy was excellent as narrator - multiple voices, easy to follow who is saying what.

Book: Two Nights in Lisbon
Author: Chris Pavone
Format: Audiobook
Genre: Thriller
Places Featured: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
Book Club/Reading Challenge: #gltreadingchallenge2022 (Book from Western Europe)
Review Score: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: I really wanted to like this one because it sounded like a book right up my alley--a mystery/thriller involving international--but it was just a little too long and complicated for me to give it a raving review. It was still enough to keep me listening, though, so it has some potential. Ariel is on her honeymoon in the old city of Lisbon when she wakes up to an empty bed and no word from her new husband...which sends her on a search that takes her around the world and back to her own past. The beginning was definitely intriguing and it wasn't a bad ending, but it dragged a bit in the middle.

Thank you Macmillian audio for the audio ARC of Two Nights in Lisbon!
I always really enjoy Chris Pavone's stories, they are fast-paced, and always keep me on the edge of my seat.
When Ariel wakes up in Lisbon and realizes her new husband is missing she must decide how far she will go to get him back.
The audiobook was great, really putting the listener into Ariel's story.

Stunning, absolutely phenomenal novel. Loved it all the way and great narration! Thank you so much! Wonderful character development and writing also, all around phenomenal book and one of my favorites of the year!